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I can't really blame Lebedev for that, given how expensive EInk displays are, due to the patent/monopoly situation.
> due to the patent/monopoly situation That's factually wrong. Debunked many times on HN and yet still repeated.
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Maybe this: https://www.gboards.ca/product/ginni
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Yes he offered but I don’t use email and cannot contact him that way.
I’m not sure which way your email joke is going. Is it poking fun at some HNers who go out of their way not to use common services or devices, or, are you joking that changing your username isn’t worth any effort? Edit: oh. Likely a 1984 reference. Never mind now. Leaving comment as it is though
I parsed his profile line as a disambiguation.
Something like:
My handle is not cyber-"rabbi", so ignore the religious overtones.
I intended "rabbit" and did it wrong. The UI has this irritating quirk, but I'm not motivated to enough to really fix it.
Not that important.
I'll strongly suggest changing the approach from character input to phonetic input like the stenotype machines. Creating a nice set of rules prioritising writing speed is of course no easy task, however I think it is the only viable way in my opinion to make it usable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Hmktf9ZlY
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Coupled with a custom dictionary exactly. I'm sure you could even make T5 though it probably works less well with only 5 keys. For those who don't remember: T9 would have one key for "abc", own for "def" and so on. You didn't have to tap the first two key twice to type "be". You would simple tap the first and the second key, then it would look for words matching "(a|b|c)(d|e|f)" and conclude the most common such word…
You can waive the prediction too if you allowed people to swipe on those keys too akin to a modern Japanese mobile input method. For latin script you can combine them: 1 for a or b or c, swipe left for a, swipe up for b, swipe right for c, etc.
But the upside to prediction is that you don't even need to know how to spell perfectly.
Maybe letters that sound similar could be on the same key... If you were to reinvent the system.
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> due to the patent/monopoly situation That's factually wrong. Debunked many times on HN and yet still repeated.
I haven't seen any refutation, do you have any references?
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Are you telling me that I have four fingers in English but five Finger in German? I'm confused, but Collins dictionary agrees with you: "Your fingers are the four long thin parts at the end of each hand." https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/finger
> Are you telling me that I have four fingers in > English but five Finger in German? In some languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, you have twenty. In these languages the colloquial word used for digit does not distinguish between digits on the hands and digits on the feet.
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> A complete refusal to use email for any purpose is pretty unusual to begin with I don’t know if I would say I “refuse” to use email. I simply opt not to because I am privacy conscious. I also do not browse the web with cookies or JavaScript enabled. If that’s “bizarre” to you well then I guess I am a bizarre person but I deserve a bare minimum of respect just as all humans do. > Publicly complaining about the conse…
For what it's worth, I haven't watched TV since the 80's and people assume that I am militant or insane.
It hasn’t been a second thought of that being something to point out.
However I guess in an in person situation, it may come up more as a “thin”
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I’m not sure which way your email joke is going. Is it poking fun at some HNers who go out of their way not to use common services or devices, or, are you joking that changing your username isn’t worth any effort? Edit: oh. Likely a 1984 reference. Never mind now. Leaving comment as it is though
I’m not sure why people in this thread keep thinking my comments are jokes. What is causing that? I literally do not use email.
You sticking to your guns and not using cookies or JS shows me your principles are legit.
Normally and what my comment was referencing, are people who tout one abnormal or specific thing they do or don’t do. Like how awful FB or one of its properties are. While they happily go on every other data and privacy invading site/company.